Google announced Argon access across its paid API and selected Gemini and Antigravity plans, alongside research-access programs and internal engineering examples.

Six METR researchers can use company hardware, offices and internal tools to evaluate models. METR retains publication autonomy, with narrow protected-information exceptions.

The Verge reports that a public security investigation found access to millions of conversations and ways to manipulate the robot assistant’s memory and responses, including data associated with children.

Investor-day attendees told Reuters that third-quarter revenue rose 45% from the previous quarter and that the company reported adjusted profitability.

ASML reported EUR11.7 billion in quarterly sales and expects customer demand to exceed its planned supply for 2027 and 2028. It is exploring additional capacity.

A five-year commitment provides USD50 million in compute access annually through UK-based cloud partners. It supports the wider research community alongside BOLD, SOFAIR and Imperial.

V4.1-Flash-1017 is available on the web, app and API, with announced improvements in reasoning, coding and visual understanding. MIT-licensed weights support self-hosting and a context window of up to one million tokens.

The multimodal model has 816B total parameters, 42B active parameters and a one-million-token context. It runs on two M5 Ultra Mac Studios with MLX and is available through multiple hosting platforms.

Super VL brings a 120B-parameter multimodal model, while Bolt 74B-A9B fits in 24GB with native 2-bit quantization. Both are available now; the 4GB Bolt E4B is scheduled for October 23.

ChatGPT Slides supports editable presentations, live collaboration, comments and export. A separate GPT-6 Pro update brings faster responses, improved tool use and parallel agents with visible progress.